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| | Chief / Pontiac |
 | | On April 20, 1769, a nephew of Makatchinga, a Peoria chief of the Illinois confederation, murdered Chief Pontiac in the streets of the French village of Cahokia. |
 | | Pontiac was an Ottawa war leader who took an indeterminate part in the increasingly anti-English councils and negotiations among the western allies of the French following the fall of Canada to the British in 1760. |
 | | On April 20, 1769, a nephew of Makatchinga, a Peoria chief of the Illinois confederation, murdered him in the streets of the French village of Cahokia. |
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